Defensive Shooting Standards Drill: Stage 2

Here comes another important tip from the Personal Defense Network. All right, let's take a look at stage two of the defensive shooting standards drill. Now, once again, I've got a training partner who's loading my first magazine, and who's putting the numbers on the targets. So if you haven't seen the instructions for the first defensive shooting standards drill, go ahead and look that up, do some research, figure out what that is. This is an evolution that takes us to the next step of the balance of speed and precision.

We've got three targets. Two of them are gonna have numbers on them to indicate how many shots go into the high center chest. The third target will have no new number. What I'm gonna do is, the last number of shots I fire, whatever target that is, let's say it has a three on it and I shoot three shots into the chest. I am then going to engage the colored number with obviously what's gonna be a sighted fire shot on that third target, the unmarked ones.

This is gonna give me some balance of speed and precision too, not just the different distances or angles but it's also gonna give me the difference of sighted fire versus unsighted fire. All right, so that magazine's in there, a round is chambered. Mitch has the numbers on there, obviously I don't know what they are, and he'll give me the go signal when he's ready. Go! All right, let's take a look.

I think I made it into all three zones. I hit slide lock, I did my reload, I've got a four on this one and I've got four hits in the high center chest. I've got a three on this target and I've got one, two, three new hits in the high center chest. That leaves this target as the one with no new number. And the last target I shot at was three shots, processed that information, took a sighted fire shot at the three and obviously missed.

That's what happens. That reminds me that I need to go back and get some more practice at processing information, getting on the sights and smoothly pressing the trigger to get the hit. That's the point of these drills. The point isn't perfect execution with a faster time. The point is to push yourself to process information, execute your defensive shooting skills, and see which ones you need to go back and work on after the defensive shooting standards.

Of course this being stage two when we include sighted fire. Be sure to check out the Personal Defense Network for more important tips, just like that one.